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"The frank yet graceful use of "I" distinguishes a good writer from a bad; the latter carries it with the manner of a thief trying to cloak his loot." --The Devil's Dictionary (1906) by Ambrose Bierce


"Marriage : (n.) A household consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."--The Devil's Dictionary (1906) by Ambrose Bierce


"Gunpowder : (n.) "Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels."--The Devil's Dictionary (1906) by Ambrose Bierce


"Ambrose Bierce's last known communication with the world was a letter he wrote there to Blanche Partington, a close friend, dated December 26, 1913. After closing this letter by saying, "As to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination," he vanished without a trace, one of the most famous disappearances in American literary history."--Sholem Stein

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Ambrose Bierce (1842 – c. 1914) was an American writer today best known for his Devil's Dictionary.

Bierce's lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce." Such was his reputation that it was said his judgment on any piece of prose or poetry could make or break a writer's career. Among the younger writers whom he encouraged were the poet George Sterling and the fiction writer W. C. Morrow.

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